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  1. Re:Isn't this illegal? on Fed Audit's Initial Report Reveals Trillions in Secret Loans · · Score: 2

    Has your stolen bicycle been returned yet? If so, who cares?

  2. Re:Difference being? on McCain Asks For Committee On Wikileaks, Anonymous · · Score: 1

    That Venn diagram only has two circles if you look very closely.

  3. Re:False Flag Working! on McCain Asks For Committee On Wikileaks, Anonymous · · Score: 2

    And pay private contractors to implement them.

  4. Re:Yep, a committee. on McCain Asks For Committee On Wikileaks, Anonymous · · Score: 1

    "Convene the dang committee!"

    Soon he'll say something about all hackers being Mexican Muslims.

  5. ChromeOS should be killed on Samsung Chromebook Series 5 Review · · Score: 2

    It's the answer to a question no one even thought to ask.

    Whatever resources Google has put into ChromeOS should be diverted to Android.

  6. Good Guys on Microsoft: No Botnet Is Indestructible · · Score: 1

    If the "good guys" in Redmond really were so smart, there wouldn't be botnets in the first place.

  7. Re:Any *ubuntu flavor is a good place to start.. on Ask Slashdot: Easiest Linux Distro For a Newbie · · Score: 1

    Kubuntu is crap, the last time I checked. Use Mint KDE instead.

  8. Something's fishy here on Hijacked Fox News Twitter Account Falsely Claims Obama Shot Dead · · Score: 2

    Why would someone "hack" a Fox news twitter account and promptly announce something that the followers of that account would cheer at, or at least be mildly glad of it? Why Tweet something huge like that?

    Everything about the Tweet that was sent screams immature and/or amateur, but the content of it hints at some twisted intent that no real hackers would have.

    "The Script Kiddies"? Come the fuck on.

    If I were going to hack a Fox Twitter account, I'd send a message that was contrary to Fox's agenda. Something like "Boehner, Cantor, McConnell found performing gay satanic ritual in Capitol basement. Nervous goats on scene, US flags burning."

  9. There is no new Bill Gates on It's Not a New Ballmer Microsoft Needs; It's a New Gates · · Score: 1

    As demonstrated by Apple, where the new Steve Jobs is... Steve Jobs. Gates isn't coming back.

    At this point Ballmer has too much tenure and is too deeply entrenched; the only way to overrule him is to kick him out of the room. MS needs to rid themselves of Ballmer and replace him with someone that has technical vision. Ray Ozzie should have Ballmer's Job. But that will never happen, because Ray's employee number at MS was more than 200.

  10. Re:I'll just call it epic on Microsoft Launches Office 365 Cloud Suite · · Score: 1
    • Desktop Office is one of the cash cows that keep MS out of the red
    • Like so many markets/product niches, MS insists they must "me too" their way into cloud services
  11. Re:Harsh Realities on Microsoft Exploits Firefox 4 Uproar, Beats IE Drum · · Score: 1

    Well said, sir. You summarized well my gripes and the overall Firefox situation.

  12. Re:All this uproar over a number on Microsoft Exploits Firefox 4 Uproar, Beats IE Drum · · Score: 1

    Then why version it like that in the first place?

    Because when you're Mozilla and an increasing number of your design/policy decisions are based on whatever Google does with Chrome, you want to accelerate your version numbering for no logical reason.

  13. Re:Just a little bit of history repeating on Nokia Windows Phone Revealed · · Score: 2

    ...term referring to the unintended consequence...

    Emphasis added. This almost certainly was intentional, so I hereby coin the term Elop Effect.

  14. Re:These guys are actually innovating on Tesla Will Discontinue the Roadster · · Score: 1

    Tesla's next, the Model S, will be a sedan targeting the $50k price point. There have been rumors that it will also spawn wagon and CUV variants. Not that CUV's aren't completely silly as a form factor.

    If Tesla did go out of business, all their technology and patents would likely go to Toyota, since GM pulled out of the NUMMI plant and Tesla came in.

  15. Re:"Preemptive" on FTC Approves Microsoft's Takeover of Skype · · Score: 1

    Next on CNN!

  16. Re:Will Skype soon have problems like Hotmail? on FTC Approves Microsoft's Takeover of Skype · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Will Skype become the Zune of VOIP?

    No, because Skype is popular.

  17. Re:What a worthless review on Galaxy Tab 10.1 Judged 'No Match For iPad' · · Score: 1

    ...either a moron or an Apple fanboy. Since the review is on Fox News, I'd tend to the former.

    In this case, the two are definitely not mutually exclusive.

  18. Ugh. on JavaScript Decoder Plays MP3s Without Flash · · Score: 1

    This will allow unthinking people another way to implement one of the things listed in every bad practices top ten list for the past decade: websites that make noise.

  19. Re:Microsoft should know... on Microsoft Brands WebGL a 'Harmful' Technology · · Score: 1

    The fundamental flaws in WebGL are an order of magnitude worse than almost any problem in Flash.

  20. Re:Microsoft should know... on Microsoft Brands WebGL a 'Harmful' Technology · · Score: 1

    Regarding security, MS suffers little more than a puddle of credibility.

  21. If Congress had real balls about corn on US Senate Votes For Repeal of Ethanol Subsidies · · Score: 1

    If Congress really wanted to fix several problems at once related to corn, they would end the sugar tariff and impose penalties on the use of HFCS.

  22. Re:Another option on Japanese Scientist Creates Meat Substitute From Sewage · · Score: 2

    All the places to which Spain and Portugal brought the Catholic dogma against contraception certainly do have a reproduction problem, although they can't see it that way.

  23. Re:The new Taliban? on Libyan Rebels Weaponize Power Wheels Toys · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Something about the fact that they've formed their own central bank seems less than grass-roots to me.

  24. Re:What's next? on Libyan Rebels Weaponize Power Wheels Toys · · Score: 1

    All Power Wheels and radio-controlled toy vehicles will now be subject to export restrictions.

  25. Re:Creative, but predictable. on Libyan Rebels Weaponize Power Wheels Toys · · Score: 1

    /me casually points toward the Pentagon.